Cryptoblepharus egeriae

Cryptoblepharus egeriae, the Christmas Island blue-tailed shining-skink, blue-tailed skink, or Christmas Island blue-tailed skink, is a species of skink, a lizard native to Australia's Christmas Island, and is not closely related to the Plestiodon skinks of North America, whose juveniles are known for their blue tails. It is relatively small with a black body with yellow stripes going to a bright blue tail.

Cryptoblepharus egeriae
1900 monograph of three Christmas Island reptiles, with the Christmas Island blue-tailed shinning-skink at right.

Extinct in the Wild  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Cryptoblepharus
Species:
C. egeriae
Binomial name
Cryptoblepharus egeriae
(Boulenger, 1888)
Synonyms[2]
  • Ablepharus egeriae
    Boulenger, 1888
  • Ablepharus boutonii egeriae
    — Mertens, 1931
  • Cryptoblepharus egeriae
    — Greer, 1974

Etymology

The specific name, egeriae, is in honor of HMS Egeria.[3]

Diet

The Christmas Island blue-tailed skinks eats small insects and worms.

References
  1. Woinarski, J., Cogger, H., Mitchell, N.M & Emery, J. 2017. Cryptoblepharus egeriae . The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T102327291A102327566. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T102327291A102327566.en. Downloaded on 18 February 2020.
  2. "Cryptoblepharus egeriae ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  3. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Cryptoblepharus egeriae, p. 81).

Further reading
  • Boulenger GA (1888). "On the Reptiles of Christmas Island". Proc. Zool Soc. London 1888: 534–536. ("Ablepharus egeriæ ", new species, pp. 535–536).


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